Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest virtue of the plot: a young fashion model, Doris (Harriett Andersson) and her boss, Suzanne Brown (Eva Dahlbeck), journey from Stockholm to Gothenberg, the former to get away from her cloying fiance and the latter to try to renew a once torrid love affair with a married businessman, Mr. Lobelius (Ulf Palme). In another of his brilliant characterizations, Gunnar Bjornstand portrays the aging consul, who picks up Doris and plays Santa Baby with her for a day. He buys her a gown, a necklace, and a hot choclate with whipped cream; he quietly retches as he accompanies...
Negroes who have become wealthy in Chestertown know that their fate depends upon the approval of the white community. Most of the worst slums here are owned by a Negro businessman when it discusses Negro leadership, and when it contends that even Negroes don't want integration. To gain wealth and prominence in this segregated community most of the ambitious Negroes choose to become Uncle Toms. By so doing they guarantee themselves the political support of the white community and, consequently, the support of less wealthy Negroes who are financially dependant on them...
...late Boss Crump for. his own political uses, incumbent Congressman Clifford Davis anxiously dubs as "very vicious" any criticism of his 19th century voting record on civil rights, has abandoned his campaign custom of telling a Negro dialect joke here and there. Five years ago, when Atlanta Businessman Ivan Allen Jr. was sounding out the all-powerful white rural vote for support in the governor's race, he backed an outlandish plan for resettlement of Negroes. Last summer, campaigning for mayor of Atlanta in a city with registration 31% Negro, he found the city's school integration...
...thoroughly enjoyed your article on Eugene Ferkauf [July 6]. As a small businessman I was very inspired by the potential still left in this country for an enterprising and imaginative person...
...time the committee hearings ended, the Congressmen had heard plenty of conflicting suggestions on what to do. The most drastic proposal was that businessmen be taxed on changes in their inventory levels; this made scant sense, since every businessman already stands to save money if he can stabilize his inventory. At the other extreme was Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, who argued that "inventory fluctuation is symptomatic rather than fundamental," hence any attempt to influence inventory policy directly would be pointless...